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June 29, 2011

LarKC: The Large Knowledge Collider

Filed under: OWL,Semantic Web,Semantics — Patrick Durusau @ 9:04 am

LarKC: The Large Knowledge Collider

A tweet about a video on LarKC sent me looking for the project. From the webpage:

The aim of the EU FP 7 Large-Scale Integrating Project LarKC is to develop the Large Knowledge Collider (LarKC, for short, pronounced “lark”), a platform for massive distributed incomplete reasoning that will remove the scalability barriers of currently existing reasoning systems for the Semantic Web.

This will be achieved by:

  • Enriching the current logic-based Semantic Web reasoning methods with methods from information retrieval, machine learning, information theory, databases, and probabilistic reasoning,
  • Employing cognitively inspired approaches and techniques such as spreading activation, focus of attention, reinforcement, habituation, relevance reasoning, and bounded rationality.
  • Building a distributed reasoning platform and realizing it both on a high-performance computing cluster and via “computing at home”.

Listening to the video while writing this post but did I hear correctly that data would have to be transformed into a uniform format or vocabulary? Was listening to: http://videolectures.net/larkcag09_vanharmelen_llkc/, try around time mark 12:00 and following.

I also noticed on the project homepage:


Start: 01-April-08
End: 30-Sep-11
Duration 42 months

So, what happens to LarKC on 1-Oct-11?

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